Tag: Psycho
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Out of All the Horror Movie Mothers, This One Is the Most Terrifying
The dried-up corpse of Mrs. Bates sits in her favorite rocking chair, persuading her son to kill women he gets too close to. The Xenomorph Queen will protect her spawn by hunting down the sci-fi heroine who took them out. A Deadite-Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland) tells her youngest daughter sweetly, “Mommy’s with the maggots now.” And…
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‘The Birds’ Featured a Playful Cameo, and No, It’s Not Alfred Hitchcock
Did you know that the director responsible for some of the scariest movies known to humankind owned the cutest pets in existence? It’s true. When he wasn’t terrifying audiences in record-breaking droves, Alfred Hitchcock, the keen mind behind classics like Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest, and The Birds, served as the human companion to…
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‘Psycho’ Gets 4K Uhd Blu-ray 4-Movie Collection at Arrow Video
While horror fans are currently experiencing a new slasher renaissance with films like Scream VI, the Halloween legacy trilogy, and Sick delighting audiences, the slasher genre’s success can all be traced back to one film: Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho. The 1960 proto-slasher is considered by many to be one of the best and most influential horror…
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One of the Earliest Slasher Films Ended Its Director’s Career
When there is a discussion of what the first-ever slasher was, a lot of titles come up. John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978 certainly changed everything and set off the subgenre, with Friday the 13th and its sequels leading the way through the 1980s. Still, Halloween wasn’t the first slasher. There had been others before it,…
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When Horror Movies Used Transphobia for Jump Scares
Horror can be one of the most inclusive spaces ever. It is especially pioneered by queer writers and directors, like Clive Barker. But it can also be very exploitative. It is known for its history of exploiting women, as well as transgender identity — especially for transgender women. These kinds of characters and ideas are…
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Alfred Hitchcock Turned His Lowest-Budget Movie Into a Masterpiece
Seminal director Alfred Hitchcock made Psycho, widely considered one of the best films of all time, at 60 years old and on a shoestring budget. After a career already responsible for films that are the bread and butter of both scholars and students — Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Vertigo, and North by Northwest…
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Planet Of The Apes Needed More Makeup Artists Than Hollywood Could Provide
Akin to “Psycho,” the earth-shattering reveal in the closing moments of “Planet of the Apes” became so ingrained into the pop culture lexicon that most folks became aware of it before they even saw the film. There’s a part of me that can’t fully separate the actual ending from that episode of “The Simpsons” where…
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The Godfather Review: After 50 Years, It’s Still a Movie You Can’t Refuse
As part of Collider’s “retro review” series, I’ve been fortunate enough to watch and review Penny Marshall’s heartfelt tear-jerker A League of Their Own and Alfred Hitchcock’s suspenseful masterpiece Psycho, two very different, but very important films for any lover and admirer of cinema. But the title that inevitably rises to the top of all…
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How Black Christmas Led to the Creation of Halloween
When looking at the history of the slasher genre, it seems to start for many with John Carpenter’s Halloween in 1978. Yes, there was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in 1960, but it’s remembered more as a psychological film rather than as a straight-up slasher. There was also Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 1974,…
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Psycho Franchise Stays Interesting By Never Making the Same Film Twice
Crafting a sequel to one of the most beloved films of all-time is always a challenge. As good as films like 2010: The Year We Made Contact or Blade Runner 2049 are, they are always going to be compared to the original classics that inspired them. Initially, it seemed like making a sequel to Alfred…